A council majority voted 5-3 on Tuesday night to reject a $78.6 million contract to advance the Inner Harbor seawater desalination plant.

Interim City Attorney Buck Brice’s recommendation would stop over 12,000 voters who signed the FWA petition from having their say at the ballot box.

Fossil fuel companies are raking in massive profits during the Iran War, while Coastal Bend residents pay more at the pump.

City charter amendments covering council terms, elected officials' pay, and a property tax increase for street repair could appear on the November ballot.

A former Bitcoin mining company plans to build a massive AI data center on farmland just outside of Robstown and Calallen.

News reports indicate that the Nueces River Authority may exhaust its desalination fund by the end of August, putting its troubled Harbor Island desalination project in jeopardy.

The Corpus Christi City Council voted 5-4 to reject applying for federal grant funding for the proposed industrial Inner Harbor desalination plant.

City Manager Peter Zanoni notified the City Council this morning that a projected Level 1 Water Emergency drought stage is now more than a year away.

A four-month petition drive yielded enough signatures to ensure Corpus Christi voters will decide the fate of industry’s drought exemption program.

Amid the region’s ongoing water crisis, city officials are keeping secret how much water a tax-subsidized Bitcoin mining operation is consuming.

After a marathon City Hall meeting in which residents spoke out overwhelmingly against the Inner Harbor desalination plant, the City Council voted at 2:30am to once again delay a decision.

Marine scientists from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and the University of Texas say the modeling used to evaluate the plant’s environmental impact is not yet reliable enough.

Inside Climate News and the Texas Newsroom reveal that Corpus Christi officials believe the neighboring town of Sinton may be fighting groundwater projects in order to reserve supplies for a data center development.

Decades of prioritizing industrial growth over resource management have brought the Coastal Bend region to the edge of a water catastrophe.

The Texas Water Development Board rejects the NRA’s application for a low-interest loan for its Harbor Island seawater desalination project while controversy engulfs the agency.

Officials pressed city staff and contractors for answers about PFAS contamination in the Inner Harbor prior to an expected vote on the controversial desalination project.

Corpus Christi's industrial water users who participate in the city’s drought surcharge exemption program will remain exempt from surcharges even if the city declares a water emergency.

Greg Abbott sent political shockwaves through the Coastal Bend last week, threatening to seize control of Corpus Christi city government if local leaders fail to advance the Inner Harbor desal plant.